Appearances
Here are some of my recorded podcasts, videos, and appearances in which I discuss the Creative Genius principles and expand on its lessons, I hope they serve you well.
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Additional Links and Resources to Boost Your CreativityPODCAST: Are you really creative?
Flywheel Podcast
I speak with Victor Jimenez from the Flywheel Podcast about the innate creativity with which we are born. Direct iTunes link
ONLINE LESSON: Creatively Entrepreneurial
Startups.co
The folks at Startups.co had me do a ten part series about some of the core principles found in BCGA – take a listen!
TALK: Creative Populism
TEDx
Five years ago I was asked to talk at a TEDx about creative populism, the idea that each of us and all of us need to be the most creatively entrepreneurial version of ourselves we can be. I was in the early stages of figuring out how to best share this message.
My favorites
A small collection of books and a couple of shows offered to you as they came to me. They’ve been great examples of how appreciating appreciates; my open ended and playful, and generous and humble, reading and viewing of these teases and sparks new generative disposition and often new ideas.
A small collection of books and a couple of shows offered to you as they came to me. They’ve been great examples of how appreciating appreciates; my open ended and playful, and generous and humble, reading and viewing of these teases and sparks new generative disposition and often new ideas.
A WHOLE NEW MIND
Daniel Pink
I consider Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind an awakening, a call to a full appreciation of why we must become the most creatively entrepreneurial nation we can become. He’s a great thinker, and wonderful writer, but then you probable knew that already.
WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants is powerful. And challenging. It fundamentally changes the way my students consider technology—they have new perspectives on the rich emergent complexity of it all. After the first 100 pages I felt so much smarter I decided to start over again at page 1, I wanted to better understand what I missed the first time.
THE SOCIAL ANIMAL
David Brooks
I’ve just started using David Brooks’ The Social Animal in some of my classes. If Jobs is right, if creativity is just connecting the dots so make sure you have lots of dots, then this book is filled with dots that resonant with creative vibe. He surveys and often illuminates current research about why we relate the way we do, or don’t—empathy rocks, creatively speaking.
How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation
Kevin Ashton
A great book. I disagree with a couple of Kevin Ashton’s ideas about the nature of creativity, but man oh man is he ever a great writer with so many wonderful stories. I used it the last semester I taught at Duke and the students found it engaging and compelling.
This Will Make You Smarter
John Brockman
Edited by John Brockman, this is a collection of short articles introducing a great range of cutting edge scientific concepts that, as I wrestle with my understanding of them, develops my creative cognition. “Thinking in Time Versus Thinking Outside of Time”, “Designing your Mind”, “Correlation is not Cause”, and “Everything is in Motion” are just a few of the articles I had fun struggling with.
Some are very short, less than a page; they challenge me to say a lot in all I say, and say no more than is needed.
TREME
HBO
This HBO series is set in New Orleans in the recent aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and while much of the focus over the show’s four seasons is the corruption that occurred throughout the system as so much Federal money came into town, I found even more engaging the stories of a city recreating itself, a story filled with so many extraordinary demonstrations of human creativity we come to see it as ordinary. Which is to say, common to us all. We see it in the music scene, in clubs and on the streets. We see it in food, from the most humble restaurants to the most demanding. We see it in the rebuilding of communities—the government helping one moment, impeding the next—and we celebrate it in Mardi Gras, from the Indians to the second line parades.
I want to watch it again.
The Get Down
Netflix
I love watching creative expression emerge—in this case it’s the emergence of hip hop music and culture in the Bronx in the late ‘70’s—and that’s just one reason to watch the show on Netflix. From my perspective it’s an exotic world they portray, and the music and the dance, the characters and their stories, are spellbinding.
Silicon Valley
HBO
It is hilarious—great comedy comes from great characters and they got ‘em—and it has important creative and entrepreneurial truths woven throughout. Another HBO show. While it has received widespread critical acclaim, some think these characters I appreciate are a bit stereotyped. I thought they were familiar.
OTHER LINKS
I offer a wide variety here and bet you’ll find a couple that will serve you over time: